of common understanding, if they serve God and mind their callings,
make fewer mistakes in the conduct of life than those who have
better heads. And yet wisdom is a mighty blessing when it is
applied to good purposes, to instruct the ignorant, to be a faithful
counsellor either in public or private, to be a director to youth,
and to many other ends needless here to mention.

To conclude: God sent us into the world to obey His commands, by
doing as much good as our abilities will reach, and as little evil
as our many infirmities will permit. Some He hath only trusted with
one talent, some with five, and some with ten. No man is without
his talent; and he that is faithful or negligent in a little shall
be rewarded or punished, as well as he that hath been so in a great
deal.

Consider what hath been said, &c.



ON SLEEPING IN CHURCH



"And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus,
being fallen into a deep sleep; and while Paul was long preaching,
he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was
taken up dead."--Acts xx. 9.

I have chosen these words with design, if possible, to disturb some
part in this audience of half an hour's sleep, for the convenience